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A YouTube and (former) Channel Awesome reviewer. Benzaie is a hyperactive French retro gamer with a self-deprecating sense of humor who hosts "Games That You Might Don't Know but That are Still Pretty Damn Sweet", a look back at obscure old games, mostly for the Sega Saturn and Neo-Geo. He has a pet / sidekick / roommate / son / brother / lover, Beary Bear, and a tongue-in-cheek rivalry with TGWTG member That Dude in the Suede. Also hosts FAQ You, Hard Corner, and Heavy Metal Package, as well as his Benzaie's Top Five segment. His GameFap and Let's Fap shows are hosted by one of his other characters, Master Bate.

Mostly does videos in French these days with a revamped version of Hard Corner, this time taking place in a game store.

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Affectionate Parody: In Spoony's review of Mazes and Monsters, Benzaie makes a guest appearance and decides to have his own fun with the controversy over the Critic's The Room review by dressing up and acting as Tommy Wiseau.

The first part of his Rapelay review consists of him ranting about the American overreaction to a game that wasn't even available in the American market.

He follows this up in his Can't Escape the Heroine review with Beary going on a long rant pointing out the hypocrisy of a game about male on female rape being banned, but not a game about female on male rape.

Bilingual Bonus: In the end of Benzaie's Moktar review, he has a flashback with a conversation in French. None of the English subtitles match.

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Casanova Wannabe: The "FAQ You" segments. Bate is very confident about his sex life and his ability to score with women. It's implied that he's pretty much this without the failure part mentioned in the trope, but doesn't quite completely cross into either Handsome Lech or The Casanova territory.

According to one of Spoony's vlogs, this happened when he was introduced to the concept of sales tax being excluded from the price tag, which does not happen in Europe.

Judging by how often it was mentioned in the "TGWTG Does Benzaie" anecdotes, this is apparently something of a Berserk Button for him now.

According to Spoony's commentary, while filming Kickassia, he got confused and then angry over seeing "pie a la mode" on a menu. In English, it means "pie with ice cream", but in French it means "pie of the style". Both he and the other critics concluded that America was fucked up.

Fan Disservice: in the Let's Fap for "X-Change," whenever he gets to a sex scene he ha a tendency to start using strange voices, including his Hard Corner voice (for the male-turned-female protagonist), Kermit the Frog, a pirate, and Beary

Ho Yay:invoked Benzaie makes it pretty damn clear in his review of "Beverly Hills Cop: The Movie: The Game" that he just wants to touch some other guys in his rap song. Namely Phelous and Spoony.

I'm a Humanitarian: In his IK+ review, Benzaie tells Beary his mom is dead, but she's still around...as in she's been feeding them for the past few months. Cue Beary glancing at his meal, and Ben telling him to hurry up and eat, since he "can't microwave your mother".

Let's Play: His Bate character has one called "Lets Fap", where he plays through Cobra Mission on the DOS platform, claiming it to be one of the very first interactive games featuring animated nudity. Of course, all the nudity itself is censored for the review.

Mr. Fanservice: He frequently does cameos in other TGWTG members' videos in which he is either in his underwear, or completely naked. There's also the one time he cosplay as Conan the Barbarian for Suburban Knights.

Subverted.Whenever Ben comes up with a new running gag he tries to kill it as fast as possible.

The phrase "Ça dépasse l'entendement!" ("That's inconceivable!"), born in his review of the promotional VHS of the Playstation, has been reused in other Hard Corner episodes, and even in some of his cameos with other French youtubers. Initially, it was a sarcastic reaction to the VHS gushing over Battle Arena Toshinden and its "inconceivable" diversity of weapons (the video showed a bunch of swords, and a lance!)

Robot Me: In the third act of Computer and Spaceman, Computer takes on the form of Spaceman after going power-mad.

Shared Universe: As a former member of Channel Awesome, he is automatically part of the Reviewaverse.

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